Halloween Dice Games for Kids

October 17, 2024 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

There are lots of different ways to incorporate dice games into your Halloween content at school or at home. Using dice is a great way for kids to practice one-to-one correspondence and counting, or for older kids it just adds a fun spin to a game.

One of the most basic Halloween dice game ideas is rolling a jack ‘o lantern. Each number on the die corresponds to a different part of the face, so you can end up with, say, lots of eyes if you keep rolling the same number (or just keep rolling until you hit a number you haven’t had before). Views from a Stepstool has a version of this game that uses one die, while the printable from The Savvy Sparrow uses two dice so there are more options.

You can also roll a monster, which is the same concept, just a little more open ended. You can make up your own rules like the ones above, or use this one from Mommy Made That, which has kids roll for the number of eyes, legs, teeth and arms their monster will have, as well as color and other features to add.

Or roll a monster face with these instructions from Drawing How to Draw. This one uses a single die and you roll for the specific features (like a certain kind of mouth or hair) that you then draw on your page.

The Fourth Grade Geek has a dice game on Teachers Pay Teachers that would be fun for older elementary school kids. The object is to build your skeleton the fastest based on rolls of the dice, but there’s a twist: if you roll a 6, someone can steal one of your pieces!

You can also use dice to assemble a story, like with this printable from ELSA Support. This was designed for English language learners but would be fun for kids of all ages (with little kids you could roll as a group and write a story together). Each roll gives you a part of the story such as a character, setting, emotion, prop and problem, which are then used to write a spooky story.

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Five Senses Crafts and Activities for Preschool

One of the subjects that’s often covered in preschool is learning about the five senses. Understanding our senses helps us describe the world around us and our experience in it, and it’s fun to explore the senses in different ways.

Rock Your Homeschool has a great free printables pack having to do with the five senses. I love the foldable activity shown above because it emphasizes that the way we really experience our senses is through our brains. They also have a sensory scavenger hunt printable, which doesn’t include taste but has the rest of the senses included.

Of course we don’t really want kids tasting things they find outside (unless you happen to have fruit or vegetables growing nearby) but I like the way Hands on Teaching Ideas handled it by including “something an animal would eat” on their five senses scavenger hunt.

Sea of Knowledge has lots of ideas for things to do with preschoolers to learn about the five senses, as well as this free with email signup template for making a five senses craft (you could also trace the child’s hands instead of using the hands in the template if you like).

Use a potato head toy you probably already have to play a five senses game with the download from A Little Pinch of Perfect. You could do the same thing on paper with a potato (or human body) shape and color on the different sense organs.

Simple Everyday Mom has a cute set of senses puppets you can print and play with, or use for different projects and crafts.

Preschool Packets has a whole set of posts dealing with teaching the five senses (the one linked here is for hearing but the rest are linked within that post), which includes a great idea for making shakers with kids to explore the sense of hearing.

Tim’s Printables has some cute five senses printables where kids can match the image to the sense you’d use to explore it. There’s also a body to label but I think there’s only a male version.

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